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1 Pfennig - Alexius Frederick Christian
| Issuer | Anhalt-Bernburg |
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| Year | 1808 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Five-line central inscription in bold upright Roman lettering reading 'I / PFENNIG / SCHEIDE / MÜNTZ. / 1808', denoting the denomination as one Pfennig of small change currency and the date of issue. The legend fills the entire field without a surrounding border legend. A fine milled border frames the design. |
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| Edge | Plain. |
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Anhalt-Bernburg was one of the smallest of the fragmented Anhalt territories, and by 1808 it sat uncomfortably within Napoleon's reorganized German sphere following the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806. Alexius Frederick Christian ruled a principality barely capable of sustaining independent coinage, and these copper pfennigs represent some of the final years before the Anhalt lines began their slow consolidation — Anhalt-Bernburg itself surviving until 1863, when it merged with Dessau and Köthen into a unified Anhalt duchy upon the extinction of its ruling line.